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 [Labspaces.net Latest News RSS News Feed] Featured - A DNA-based vaccine shows promise against avian flu: Ho, Rockefeller’s Irene Diamond Professor and scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, together with his colleagues at Taiwan’s Academia Sinica, has built a vaccine that stimulates immunity to a broad range of H5N1 viruses in mice by using DNA rather than dead virus particles grown in eggs. Such a vaccine, which consists of plasmid DNA that’s been genetically modified to elicit specific immune responses, is much easier to rapidly modify and produce ”” critical advantages when racing to prevent an epidemic.

 [Bird Flu (Avian Influenza) News] A DNA-based vaccine shows promise against avian flu: (PhysOrg.com) -- Though it has fallen from the headlines, a global pandemic caused by bird flu still has the United States` Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on high alert. Yet, to date, the only vaccines that have proven even .

 [Avian Flu Talk] Latest News : Good News on a Possible Vaccine: But the virus mutates quickly and has made the jump to humans--often with fatal results. A new vaccine elicits broad immunity in animal tests and could prove effective against as-yet-unknown strains of avian flu.

 [Healthnews.com - More Natural Health] New DNA Vaccine Proves to be Effective Against Avian Flu: In a statement, Dr Robert Belshe of Saint Louis University School of Medicine, who monitored safety, said in a statement, "The preliminary results from this Phase 1 trial indicate for the first time that DNA vaccination against H5N1 influenza is well-tolerated and can induce impressive antibody responses." He went on to explain, "Successful development of a safe and effective DNA vaccine will help address the potential public health threat of pandemic influenza."

 [From the Styx by Peggy Tibbetts] H5N1 rears its ugly head: Inovio Biomedical Corporation (AMEX:INO), a leader in enabling the development of DNA vaccines using a proprietary electroporation-based DNA delivery platform, announced recently pre-clinical results from two proprietary plasmid DNA-based universal influenza vaccine candidates using the company’s proprietary electroporation delivery technology and, specifically, a new intradermal device.

[The Flu News Blog] Latest News: Latest NewsdBusinessNews.com - The TriGrid is also being used to enable endogenous protein production for DNA-based treatments of HIV, Hepatitis B and C, malaria, avian flu and various forms of cancer in pre-clinical and clinical trials .

 [Global Voices Online] Effect Measure on Facing the Global Bird Flu Threat: With recent reports of avian flu in Western Europe, the disease is clearly no longer East Asia’s problem. It’sa dilemma for the world.

[The Flu News Blog] Countries Should Stock up on Anti-Flu Agent: Countries Should Stock up on Anti-Flu Agent Forbes - 18 hours ago 12 (HealthDay News) ”” Countries should stockpile zanamivir as an anti-influenza agent as part of their preparations for a possible avian flu pandemic .

[TaxProf Blog] What Tax Profs Are Reading . . . Maule and More Maule: After getting through the basic stuff, such as why each one of us is related to each other one of us, Olson turns to the question of whether sapiens and neadertals interbred, whether the kohanin of the Jews are genetically linked and thus descended from one man (Aaron), the genetic "bottleneck" among the Samaritans of some years ago, the migration of humanity out of African and across the Indian Ocean seacoast to China and the archipelagos, the descendancy sequence between northern and southern Chinese, whether language families match up with DNA pedigrees, the genetic diversity of Europeans, the patterning of DNA trends onto a map of France and the clues that are provided for contemplating the impact of present day immigration into Europe, the disputes over the timing of the settlement of the Americas, and the political difficulty of obtaining genetic information when there is concern and even fear that it could be used to the disadvantage of those who contribute.

 [The Regulator Room] Avian flu warnings spur action in United States:     HHS also has invested in a bird-flu vaccine with a $100 million contract award last month to Sanofi Pasteur, the Swiftwater, Pa., vaccine business of French drug company Sanofi-Aventis Group. Sanofi Pasteur will make a vaccine that will protect against the H5N1 virus strain.

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